**Nawaz Sharif’s village in India prays he returns to power **
NEW DELHI: The members of a village Jatti Umra near a Sikh holy city to pray for the return to power of Nawaz Sharif in Pakistan. Elders at Jatti Umra, a village 30 km from here, where Sharif’s father Mian Mohammed Sharif used to live till the Partition of India in August 1947, want Sharif to come back to power.
‘We want Sharif to come back to power. We are proud that the Sharif family, which hails from here, has gone on to become one of the biggest political families in Pakistan. People in this village were upset when he was ousted from power in 1999,’ Jatti Umra headman Tarsem Singh said.
The ‘haveli’ (bungalow) owned by the Sharif family in the village now houses the village gurudwara. Only a few village elders have fond memories of the elder Sharif.
Re: Nawaz Sharif's village in India prays he returns to power.
So he is mohajir...? I didnt know this...
There are many many mohajirs who moved from one part of Punjab (now in India) to the other part (Pakistan) but since the language was same they didn't have problems getting settled/discrimination etc.